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With any pattern of regular drug use, itâs important to continually track whether the risks outweigh the benefits, keeping in mind that addiction itself may distort this calculation. This is especially true with marijuana. However, as with all other drugs, only a minority of marijuana users ever struggle with addiction. Research suggests that about 10 get hookedâand on average, marijuana addiction lasts six years. Even more than other addictions, marijuana addiction seems to be driven by self-medication of mental health problemsâ 90 of people with marijuana addiction also have another addiction or mental illness, typically alcoholism or antisocial personality disorder.

Concerned that this might on balance cause more deaths by limiting an effective treatment for opiate addiction, an expert panel convened by the US government has changed its mind on whether the risk of a fatal heart attack potentially posed by methadone justifies routine electrocardiogram screening of patients.]